Bug 442177

Created attachment 302219 [details]
Snippet of /var/log/messages after connecting phone via usb

The first partition extends beyond the end of the device. Is it possible to get
the output of "fdisk -l" for that disk?

[root@pikachu ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 995 MB, 995958272 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 949 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1         950      972615+   6  FAT16

[root@pikachu ~]# fdisk -l -u /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 995 MB, 995958272 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 949 cylinders, total 1945231 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *         369     1945599      972615+   6  FAT16

So yes, but even allowing for the apparent off-by-one in the partition table,
we're reading 'way past the end. LVM + readahead?

OK, disabling lvm for /dev/sdc stops the message spew, so it is lvm accessing
(or attempting to access) those sectors. Anything else I can do?

Created attachment 302859 [details]
Output of fsck.vfat -n -v /dev/sdi

Looks like another Sony "mess with the details" trick, like their DVDs that
won't play in a PC due to missing sectors ...

Apologies for the noise, this isn't really a kernel bug. Although we could
perhaps detect and work around it?

What is the problem with the fsck output?

After some discussion on IRC I see that the partition is too big but the
filesystem doesn't use the whole partition. lvm appears to try forever to read
information at the end of the disk instead of giving up after failure and that's
what causes the problem.

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